The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
G. I. GURDJIEFFLaughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
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Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
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Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Personality in man is what is “not his own” . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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